Jimmy Carter Quotes

The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews! Those offended include Arabs, Jews, and English teachers.

Jimmy Carter

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• Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

  

  J. Cole
  • President
  • Successful
  • Skin

• Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Jews
  • Slaves
  • Neurotics

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Stupid
  • Jews
  • Homosexuality

• President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • President
  • Enemies
  • Reagan

• That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.

  

  Ed Markey
  • American
  • Hand
  • President

• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Write

• The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Action
  • Kind
  • President

• We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • President
  • Policy

• I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • United States

• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Living
  • Jews
  • Minority

• I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • President

• I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Dream
  • President
  • Serve

• I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • President
  • Agree
  • Policies

• The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Relationship
  • Beginning
  • President

• No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Said
  • Face
  • Jews

• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Think
  • More
  • Jews

• I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Hate
  • Jews
  • Lover

• Now you have heard the managers' vision ... But I believe their vision to be too dark... I believe it to be a vision more focused on retribution, more designed to achieve partisan ends, ... Our vision, I think, is quite different, but it is not naive. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Country

• Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

  

  Burt Prelutsky
  • Israel
  • Jews
  • Iran

• God never disappoints anyone who places his trust in Him.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • God
  • Trust
  • Disappoint

• The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews! Those offended include Arabs, Jews, and English teachers.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • President
  • Jews
  • Arabs